JPL Astrophysics Luncheon Seminars
Monday 12:00-1:00, Room 169-336

Scheduled Speakers for 2006:


Date Speaker Title
Jan 2 no talk holiday
Jan 9 no talk AAS meeting
Jan 16 no talk Martin Luther King Day
Jan 23 Dana Backman (NASA-Ames) SOFIA
Jan 30 Karl Stapelfeldt (JPL) Star Formation and Extrasolar Planets
with Future Extremely Large Telescopes
Jan 31, Tues, 4:00 Talso Chui (JPL) Using the Moon as a Detector for Strange Quark Matter
Feb 2, Thurs, 10:30 Jonathan Gardner (NASA-GSFC) Studying Galaxy Formation with the Hubble, Spitzer, &
James Webb Space Telescopes
Feb 6 Klaus Pontoppidan (CalTech) Structure & Chemistry of Planet-Forming Disks
as Observed by Spitzer
Feb 13 Spitzer (SSC) Proposals due this week
Feb 20 no talk Presidents' Day
Feb 21, Tues, 12:00, 167 Nicolas Altobelli (JPL) Interstellar Dust Within the Solar System:
The In-situ Detection Point of View
Feb 21, Tues, 4:00 Douglas Finkbeiner (Princeton) WMAP Microwave Emission Interpreted as
Dark Matter Annihilation in the Inner Galaxy
Feb 27 Greg Herczeg (CalTech) Diverse Origins of Fluorescent H2 emission
from Classical T Tauri Stars
Feb 28, Tues, 11:00 Paolo Padoan (UCSD) Dynamics of Dust in Interstellar Turbulence
Feb 28, Tues, 4:00 Pawel Mazur (S.Carolina) The Finite Size Universe, Cosmological Vacuum Energy,
and CMB in the Microscopic Theory of Gravitation
Mar 27, 1:30 Steven Pravdo (JPL) Stellar Planet Survey (STEPS)
Mar 28, Tues, 4:00 Stojan Madzunkov (JPL) Polyatomic Molecule Formation on Icy Grains
April 3 Patrick Ogle (SSC) Radiatively Inefficient Radio Galaxies
April 10 on campus Spitzer Fellow Symposium
April 17 Chris St. Cyr (GSFC) The March 2006 NASA Eclipse Expedition to Libya
April 24 Bidushi Bhattacharya (IPAC) Spitzer Rocks!!
Space-Based IR Observations of Main Belt Asteroids
April 27, Thurs, 4:00 Alex Kusenko (UCLA) Searching for dark matter from space
May 1 Matthias Stute (JPL) X-ray emission from Pre-Planetary & Planetary Nebulae
May 8 Sarah Gallagher (UCLA) Warm Dust and Fast Winds:
Quasar Outflows in the Mid-Infrared
May 15 Elise Furlan (UCLA) Dust Evolution in Protoplanetary Disks Observed with Spitzer-IRS
May 22 Christopher Mauger (Caltech) Neutrino Masses and the Oscillations Which Probe Them
May 25, Thurs, 1:00 Ti-pei Li (Tsinghua) HXMT - A Chinese Black Hole Probe
May 26, Fri, 1:30 Fabio Scardigli (Lisbon) Holography, Uncertainty Principle, & Extra Dimensions
May 29 no talk Memorial Day
May 30, Tues, 4:00 Giovanna Tinetti (Paris) Characterizing Extrasolar Planets with
Reflected, Emitted, and Transmitted Spectra
June 5 Gianni Tofani Building the new Italian Radiotelescope in Sardinia
June 19 David Johnston (JPL) Constraining Cosmology with Weak Lensing of Galaxy Clusters
June 26 Emily Schaller (CalTech) Long-term Monitoring of Titan's Weather
with Ground-Based Telescopes
June 29, Thurs, 1:00-5:00 Hal Yorke et al HERSCHEL SEMINAR
July 3 no talk Independence Day
July 10 Jin Koda (CalTech) Elongations and Supersonic Motions in Molecular Clouds
July-Aug (summer break)
Aug 15, Tues, 4:00 Gary Case (LSU) High Energy Emission from Galactic Black Holes with BATSE
Aug 22, Tues, 4:00 Alexandre Refregier (SEA/Saclay) Weak Lensing and Dark Energy
Sept 4 no talk Labor Day
Sept 11 Nick Law (JPL) Lucky Imaging:
HST Resolution from the Ground in the Visible
Sept 18 Tom Kuiper (JPL) From Molecular Clouds to Protostars: DSN Radio Astronomy
Sept 25 Luisa Rebull (SSC/CalTech) Rotation in Young Stars: An Overview
Oct 2 Di Li (JPL) Early Phases of Star Formation
Oct 8-13 DPS meeting (Pasadena)
Oct 9 (vonKarman) Andrea Ghez (UCLA) Central Black Hole of the Milky Way
Oct 23 Kristina Barkume (CalTech) 2003 EL61: A Catastrophic Collision in the Kuiper Belt
Oct 30 Tibor Balint (JPL) Overview of NASA's 2006
Solar System Exploration Strategic Roadmap
Nov 6-11 Spitzer/TPF conference (Pasadena)
Nov 13 Takeru Suzuki (Tokyo) From Steady Coronal Wind to Structured Red Giant Wind
across the X-ray Dividing Line
Nov 14, Tues, 3:00 Mike Werner & Co. (JPL) Spitzer Proposal Overview
Nov 20 Karl Stapelfeldt (JPL) Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of Nearby T Tauri Stars
Nov 27 Ken Marsh (JPL) Debris Disk Modeling
Dec 4 Caer-Eve McCabe (JPL) Thermal IR Imaging & Spectroscopy of HK Tau's Disk
Dec 11 Gaspard Duchene (Grenoble) An In-Depth Look at the Structure of Dusty Disks
Dec 18, 1:00 Jenny Patience (CalTech) High Angular Resolution Studies of Circumstellar Disks

Previous Speakers: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

General directions for speakers
contact: Geoffrey.Bryden@jpl.nasa.gov